Psalm 94
1 LORD,
you God to whom
vengeance belongs,
you God to whom
vengeance belongs, shine out.
2 Rise
up, you judge
of the earth.
Pay back the
proud what
they deserve.
3 LORD,
how long will
the wicked,
how long will
the wicked triumph?
4 They
pour out arrogant words.
All the evildoers
boast.
5 They
break your people
in pieces, LORD,
and afflict your
heritage.
6 They kill
the widow and the
alien,
and murder the
fatherless.
7 They say, “The
LORD
will not see,
neither will
Jacob’s God
consider.”
8 Consider,
you senseless
among the people;
you fools, when
will you be
wise?
9 He
who implanted the
ear, won’t he hear?
He who formed
the eye, won’t he
see?
10 He
who disciplines
the nations, won’t
he punish?
He who teaches man
knows.
11 The
LORD knows the
thoughts of man,
that they are
futile.
12 Blessed is
the man whom
you discipline,
LORD,
and teach out of
your law,
13 that
you may give him
rest from the
days of adversity,
until the pit
is dug for
the wicked.
14 For
the LORD won’t
reject his people,
neither will he
forsake his
inheritance.
15 For
judgment will
return to
righteousness.
All the upright
in heart
shall follow it.
16 Who
will rise up
for me against
the wicked?
Who will stand
up for me
against the
evildoers?
17 Unless
the LORD had
been my help,
my soul would
have soon lived
in silence.
18 When
I said, “My foot
is slipping!”
Your loving kindness,
LORD, held me up.
19 In
the multitude of
my thoughts within
me,
your comforts
delight my soul.
20 Shall
the throne of
wickedness have
fellowship with
you,
which brings about
mischief by
statute?
21 They
gather themselves
together against
the soul of
the righteous,
and condemn the
innocent blood.
22 But
the LORD has
been my high tower,
my God, the
rock of my
refuge.
23 He
has brought on
them their own iniquity,
and will cut
them off in
their own wickedness.
The LORD, our
God, will cut
them off.